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— Thanks to author Joan Wester Anderson for today's
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saved by a fern?!
By Joan Wester
Treva
Clay, now of
Riding home from work one
afternoon, the family saw several colorful hot-air balloons in the sky. “Let’s follow them!” Treva’s
mother said. Treva’s
father agreed, and sped up.
But because they were on a hill,
it was hard to keep the balloons in sight, especially when they floated behind
trees or houses. Up ahead, her father
spotted a lookout area, and quickly pulled the car over.
“Don’t wanna
go here!” Treva’s little sister was cranky after
their long afternoon. Mommy picked her
up, but she continued to whine.
“Come on, Treva,
we’ll chase them!” Daddy was already out of the car.
Treva
was enthralled with the balloons. “Daddy, wait for me!” she shouted as she
tumbled out of the car, anxious to get away from her sister and closer to the
balloons. Before her mother could warn
her to be careful, Treva was already running up the
hill.
The trail was rocky, and had
several twists and turns. Treva almost fell in a few spots. And where was Daddy? He was no longer in view. Had he reached the top already? “Daddy, wait!” Treva ran
faster. And suddenly…
…there was no ground under her feet! She had run right off the edge of the path!
Treva
screamed. As she tumbled, she reached
frantically behind her, and caught hold of a small bush. Below her was a steep rocky ravine, with a
raging river even farther down.. “Daddy!” she screamed again. The bush seemed
very small. Could it hold her?
“Treva!” It
was her father, ashen with panic, running, reaching for her, seizing her long
hair and the back of her pants and pulling her up to safety. He held her very tightly, murmuring apologies
for his carelessness, as her mother and baby sister came around the curve. They clung to each other, all aware that they
had escaped the most terrible tragedy imaginable.
“It wasn’t until we were all
breathing normally again that we realized the plant that I had been holding
onto was a thin fragile little fern, the only one of its kind anywhere on that
path,” Treva says.
“A fern has little or no roots to hold it in the dirt. Not only that, it was growing in loose
gravel. It should never have held my
weight until my father came.”
Treva’s
parents were shaken for a long time. But
their daughter had no negative reaction at all.
“I think I was so calm because I sensed a divine presence at the cliff,”
she says today. “I’m positive that my
guardian angel intervened and saved my life.”
Copyrighted 1998 by Joan Wester
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